Bottle holder and lock



Feb. 11, 1930.

w. c. FRICK BOTTLE HOLDER AND LOCK Filed Aug. 6, 1927 ago 0 Q 2 Sheets-Sheet l 1 1 @fl'; I F X??? -"/I' 1/ o 0 E9 5 54/4 m a no] 0 I Z I r i"." l0 6 H" :IIIIIIIN 55 BIKER-Hm 4 v Kiwi: /5 7 Z9 v .47 F E .h I 5 l I I 4 Will/a flick dw K M Inventor A Home y Feb. 11, 1930." w. c. FRICK 1,746,527

BOTTLE HOLDER AND LOCK Filed Aug. 6. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Invenior 'QZ-4 William C" ick A Home y Patented Feb. 11, 1930 111T sTA'rss PATENT orrics WILLIAM o. ERICK, or oLAnKsToN, wAsniNeToN, AssIeNon, BY DIRECT AND MESNE AssIeNMnNTs, or NINE-TWENTIN Ns To WILLIAM N. FRY, or D YTON, WASH- INGToN, AND ONE-TENTH To ADAM .1. scHLEn, or CLARKSTON, wAsHINGToN BOTTLE HOLDER AND LOCK I Application filed August a, 1927. SeriaI o. 211,227.

tle of milk may be delivered by the milkman who places the full bottle in the holder and at the same time removes an empty bottle therefrom. The householder then removes the full bottle by first placing an empty bottle in the holder,and it will be understood that 33. of Figure 1.

the bottle locked in the duplex holder is properly releasable and removable only after the second bottle has been placed in the holder. Means are provided that are actuated by the second bottle for releasing the retained bottle, and after the first bottle is removed the second bottle becomes locked in the holder.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed. In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a faceview of the bottle holder Z and lock showing at the left a full bottle locked at the holder and at the right an empty bottle being inserted in the holder for the purpose of releasing the lock of the bottle at the left; y

Figure 2 is a rear view of the device showing the first bottle released and ready for removal while the second bottle or empty one is locked in the holder. 1 A Figure 3 is a vertical sectionalview at line Figure 4 is a horizontal line H of Figure 3. 1

Figure 5 s a perspective View of one of the lock arms,.two of which are used.

Figure 6 is a perspective View of the single sectional view at slide bolt used .for locking, alternately, the

holders.

Figure 7 is a perspective View of one of the slide latches, two sets of which are used in the duplex holder and lock, the latches of each v set being all of the same shape but varying in size.

Figure 8 is a view in elevation of one of the pivoted latch bars, two of which are used with the lock arms. V

The construction and utility of the device is illustrated in the assembled views of Figures 1 and 2 where for convenienceof description a full bottle of milk F is locked in Figure 1 and an empty milk bottle E is being inserted in the holder for releasing the full bottle. In Figure 2 the full bottle F has been released and may be removed; while the empty bottle E has been locked in the holder and may be released only after a full bottle has taken the place of the bottle F.

The bottles are slipped into and withdrawn from the holder at the right and left sides in Figures 1 and 2 and the holder is supported against a building wall or other object by 1 means of a housing 1 having upper and lower attaching flanges 2, the housing serving as an enclosure for most of the operating parts of the device.

A pair of cups 3 and 4 are located at the sides of the holder and supported on a bottom plate 5 rigid with the housing and these cups are of the proper size and shape to form ing with the cups to retain the bottles, the 1 caps perform the functions of protectors or guards for .the mouths of the bottles.

These caps are carried at the outer ends of oppositely disposed lock lever arms 8 and 9 ha er riro e at l0. in mq ketsll; within i 30 or sto the housing and extend generally in horizontal planes. To these horizontally disposed lock lever arms are pivoted a pair of vertically arranged latch bars 12 and 13, pivoted to the arms at 14 and each provided in one of its edges with a series of spaced notches 15. These vertically arranged latch bars are designed to reciprocate with the pivotal move ment of the lock lever arms 8 and 9, and guide brackets 16 are attached at the inner adjoining faces of the side walls of the housing, to guide these latch bars in their movement.

With these vertically disposed latch bars and their notches two sets of slide latches are designed to co-act, said slide latches all being of the same shape, but the different latches of each set being of differing lengths as required by the shape of the bottle. When used with a milk bottle as in the present instance, one of the slide latches isof the same size and shape, while others, while of the same shape, vary in length, in order that the projecting, outer ends of these horizontally slidable latches may terminate on lines conforming to the line of profile of the milk bottle, as indicated in Fi ures 1 and. 2 of the drawings.

All of the sllde latches are designated .by the same numeral as 17, each having a reduced end 18, a notch 19 in one edge and a lug V 20 on one face of the slide latch and exten ing transversely thereof. These slide latches are supported in guide plates 21 and the side walls of the housing, slots 22 being provided in these plates and walls for supporting the latches so that they may slide, and the stops 20 of the latches being adapted to contact with the plates to prevent excessive slide movement. A spring 23 is coiled about the reduced end 18 of each slide latch and interposed between the shoulder 24 of the latch and a partition or plate 21 in order that the slide latches may normally be held in projected position during the absence of a bottle. When the bottle at the right in Figure 1 and at the left in Figure 2 is placed in its holder and pushed against the projecting ends of these slide latches the latter are forced inwardly against the tension of their springs to release the bottle at the opposite side of the duplex holder.

When the holder is in locked position the notched slide latches co-act with the notched latch bars to hold the slide latches in retracted position, but when the holder is in unlocked position and the outer ends of th slide latches projected to position for contact by the second bottle the notches of the latch bar and of the slide latches are not engaged, thus permitting the slide latches to be pushed inwardl with relation to the housing,

A single slide locking bolt is provided for the two lock levers 8 and 9 that is effective in preventing the removal of the ca from the locked and retained bottle, said olt being and alternately to lock the holders at opposite sides of the device, and being released y pressure from a bottle permits one of the springs 25 to swing the previously locked lever (8 or 9) to uncover the bottle as at the right in Figure 1 and at the left in Figure 2.

In Figure 6 the slide bolt is shown with a fiat body or plate 26 the outer end of which is designed to slip into a slot 27 in one of the caps, and by means of a perforated car 28 on the slide bolt the latter is pivoted to an arm 29 of the lock arm 9. The inner end of the slide bolt is reduced at 30 to form a shoulder 31, and a notch 32 is fashioned in one edge of the slide bolt for co-action with one of the notched latch bars as 13. The slide bolt is also fashioned with a shoulder 33 against which an arm 34 of the lever 10 coacts, to swing the cap 7 down over the mouth of the bottle.

The slide bolt reciprocates in slots of the housing and guide plates, in a horizontal plane and swings the arm 29 of lever 9 to close the cap 7 over the bottle top or to lift the cap therefrom.

The arm 34: of the lever 8 may co-act with the upper slide latch 35 at the left in Figure 2, said latch having a shoulder as 33 for c0- action with the lower end of the arm 34 of the lever arm, and it will be apparent that as the slide latch 35 is moved to the right in Figure 2 as the bottle is pushed into place, the coaction of the shoulder and arm will cause the lever to turn the cap 6 down over the bottle month.

In Figure 1 an indicator is shown comprising an arcuate slot 37 in the front wall of the housing and back of this wall a disk 38 is pivoted at 39 so that either the Milk sign or the N 0 milk sign can be turned to display position for instructions to the milk man.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a bottle holder and lock the combination with a housing and a pair of oppositely arranged fixed cups, of a pair of oppositely arranged pivoted levers having caps complementary to the cups, latch bars for said levers, and two series of slide latches for coaction with said bars whereby a bottle may be locked in the holder, and unlocked through the instrumentality of pressure applied through another bottle at the opposite side of the holder.

2. The combination with a housing and spaced air of cups, of a pair of oppositely arrange spring pressed levers having complementary cups, notched latch bars pivoted on said levers, and two series of notched, spring pressed and slidable latches for coaction with the bars, whereby a bottle may be unlocked at alternate sides of the housing through pressure applied through a bottle.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

WILLIAM C. FRICK. 

